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Thursday seeks to shake up conventional online dating in a crowded market. The app, which recently expanded to San Francisco, fosters intentional dating by restricting user access to Thursdays. At…

Thursday, the dating app that you can use only on Thursdays, expands to San Francisco

Match Group announced Tuesday that it has discontinued livestreaming services in its dating apps, resulting in a 6% reduction in workforce. The news was delivered during the dating app giant’s second-quarter…

Match Group cuts 6% of staff as it shuts down livestreaming in dating apps

Tinder revealed last year that it was testing a photo-selection feature that uses AI to help users choose the best photos for their dating profiles. Now dubbed “Photo Selector,” the…

Tinder’s AI Photo Selector automatically picks the best photos for your dating profile 

Bumble’s new reporting option arrives at a time when, unfortunately, AI-generated photos on dating apps are common

Bumble users can now report profiles that use AI-generated photos

Dating apps and other social friend-finders are being put on notice: Dating app giant Bumble is looking to make more acquisitions.

Bumble says it’s looking to M&A to drive growth

Match Group, the company that owns several dating apps, including Tinder and Hinge, released its first-quarter earnings report on Tuesday, which shows that Tinder’s paying user base has decreased for…

Match looks to Hinge as Tinder fails

With Match and other online dating companies facing a downturn, Archer’s growth is certainly notable.

Match-owned Archer hits over half a million installs amid dating app slump

Allowing women to make the first move has been Bumble’s modus operandi ever since it launched in 2014. A decade later, the company wants to give women even more control.…

Bumble’s Opening Move feature takes the pressure off women to come up with a new message every time

Hinge is adding a “Hidden Words” feature to its app, which will filter out likes with comments containing those phrases or words. It pretty much works like a mute filter…

Hinge adds a way to mute requests containing words you specify

Dating apps are not following great privacy practices and are collecting more data than ever in order to woo Gen Z users, a new study by Mozilla pointed out. Researchers reviewed…

Mozilla finds that most dating apps are not great guardians of user data

It’s not uncommon for people to screenshot dating profiles and send them to their friends and loved ones, either to get feedback or to let them know who they’re seeing…

Tinder gets a ‘Share My Date’ feature for users to send date plans to their curious friends

This week we look at Queerie, a dating app aimed specifically at LGBTQIA+ folks. It’s a very early-stage company that’s raising just $300,000.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Queerie’s $300K pre-seed deck

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Bumble’s new CEO talks about her critical mission: to spice things up at the company

The bigger concern for Bumble is user fatigue. People aren’t downloading dating apps as enthusiastically as they once were, which means less subscription revenue.

Bumble’s new CEO talks about her critical mission: to spice things up at the company

Tinder-owner Match Group has appointed two new members to its board of directors and signed an agreement with Elliott Management, the company announced on Monday. Chief marketing officer at Instacart…

Match appoints two board directors after talks with activist investor Elliott Management

Bumble has lost a third of its Texas workforce in the months since the state passed the controversial abortion SB 8 (Senate Bill 8), also known as the Texas Heartbeat…

A third of Bumble’s Texas workforce moved after state passed restrictive ‘Heartbeat Act’ abortion bill

Dating app maker Bumble is rethinking its vision for the company’s future after announcing weak earnings and massive job cuts that will see the company cutting a third of its…

Bumble looks to revive its friendship-focused BFF product in wake of dating app downturn

Bumble, a once-powerful force in online dating, is facing a reckoning. The company posted weak Q4 2023 results today showing a $32 million net loss and $273.6 million in revenue.…

Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckoning

Tinder is expanding its identity verification program to users in the U.S., U.K., Brazil and Mexico, the company announced on Tuesday. The program serves as an additional step for users…

Tinder is expanding ID verification to the US, UK, Brazil and Mexico

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Poor people need not apply for this dating app

It may be Valentine’s Day here in the U.S., but the dating app market isn’t looking as promising as it used to. According to a new analysis by app intelligence…

Happy Valentine’s Day, dating app downloads are slowing down

You must have at least a 675 credit score to use it.

Score is a new dating app for people with good to excellent credit

Invite-only dating app Blush has raised $7 million in seed funding to scale and expand its exclusive platform. Blush aims to redefine the online dating experience through community events, virtual…

Invite-only dating app Blush launches with $7M in funding to redefine online dating

Bumble announced today that it’s launching a new AI-powered feature that is designed to help identify spam, scams and fake profiles. The new tool, called Deception Detector, aims to take…

Bumble’s new AI tool identifies and blocks scam accounts, fake profiles

Dating app behemoth Match Group has named Faye Iosotaluno as the new Tinder CEO, two years after the previous CEO Renate Nyborg left the company in August 2022. During that…

Match Group promotes Faye Iosotaluno to Tinder CEO

Tinder is revamping its profile pages to make them more informative and create easier starting points for conversations. The company is launching features like profile prompts as conversation starters, profile…

Tinder redesigns profile pages with prompts, info tags and quiz

In a fast-moving news cycle, a personnel change wouldn’t seem to catch our attention, but this morning dating app Bumble announced a doozy: It’s replacing founder CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd…

Bumble announces Slack CEO Lidiane Jones will be its new chief exec

Dating app users will often sit with friends as they swipe through their matches in order to gain feedback, or even hand over their phone and let their friends swipe…

Tinder’s app gets more social by letting friends play matchmaker

Bumble, Inc. CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd believes the power of AI technology will lead to a better online dating experience for her apps’ users. Speaking at the Code Conference on…

Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd shares how AI will ‘supercharge’ love with digital matchmakers

Tinder has rolled out its promised high-end membership, a pricey $499 per month subscription dubbed “Tinder Select,” which includes unique perks like the ability to be seen by more users,…

Tinder snobs can now pay $499 per month to be matched with the ‘most sought after’ profiles

Let’s face it: Traditional dating app filters aren’t cutting it. While sharing the same basic interests like yoga or watching movies is nice to have in a relationship, it’s also…

Dating app The League launches ‘GoalMate’ feature to help users find goal-oriented matches